Is chardet safe to use?

chardet has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (2.1.1). DepScope rates its health at 54/100 (high risk).

What is the latest version of chardet?

The latest version of chardet is 2.1.1, released 2025-10-29.

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of chardet.

No, chardet is actively maintained. Latest release: 2.1.1 (2025-10-29).

Popular alternatives to chardet in npm include: semver, debug, minimatch, strip-ansi, ms.

npmv2.1.1

Character encoding detector

License MITpermissive29 versions1 maintainers0 deps

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 54/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

10/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

4/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

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10/10typed

bundled

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.75critical

Download trend

stable(-0.4%)

Publish security

npm signed

API access

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